Rescued from ISIS Quotes

“It just so happened we lived near a hotbed of jihadis.

Jay's friend Azzedine lived in that neighborhood, and just about two hundred yards from his family's place was a nondescript house located at 117 Dambruggestraat. It was the headquarters of a group called Sharia4Belgium. They were radical Salafists, the most extreme branch of Islam. The organization's members demanded that Belgium become an Islamic state, ruled by sharia law. The prime minister would be replaced by a caliph, the parliament would become a shura council, and all non-Muslims would be forced either to leave the country or to pay the jizya, a tax on all unbelievers.

What an outrageous idea! Only 6 percent of the country's people were Muslim, ...”
― Dimitri Bontinck, Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son

“He'd broken up with a girl, and he wanted to remake himself. It could have been something else he fell into — professional kickboxing, Zen Buddhism, meditation — but it just happened that the Moroccan girl placed a certain word in his head. And it sprouted like a seed.”
― Dimitri Bontinck, Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son

“What led me to Syria in 2013 to rescue my only son from the grips of ISIS? It was genetics and geography and a Moroccan girl and a small crack that opened in my son's mind after a breakup.”
― Dimitri Bontinck, Rescued from ISIS: The Gripping True Story of How a Father Saved His Son